Mika Quotes

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I'm letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

I went through so many phases when I was young - surfer girl, tom boy, punk - but they weren't mistakes, just moments.

I've learned that asking ourselves not just what we want to be, but who we want to be is important at every stage of our lives, not just when we're starting out in the world. That's because in a way, we're starting out fresh in the world every single day.

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.